Jason M. Kelly Ph.D. FSA FRHistS (he/him)
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Jason M. Kelly Ph.D. FSA FRHistS (he/him)
@jasonmkelly.bsky.social
Humanist, Teacher, Engaged Citizen

Director IU Indianapolis Arts & Humanities Institute
Prof. History | Africana Studies | American Studies
#c18 | #anthropocene | #skystorians | #envhist

https://jasonmkelly.com

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This is my new puppy who visited me in my office for the first time today. She was very helpful with my research.
July 18, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Meredith Martin's essay “Paradise Lost” pairs Horvath’s Room for the Lost Paradise with
Vigée Le Brun’s Prince of Nassau portrait to explore rococo simulation, colonial extraction, and period room historiography:
https://loom.ly/ViyGIrs

#18thcentury #arthistory
July 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Just so we're clear...

Article I
Section 8: Powers of Congress
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States;
June 22, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I'm pleased to announce the new IAHI-NACBS VISITING RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP--a collaboration between the IU Indianapolis Arts and Humanities Institute (IAHI) and @thenacbs.bsky.social.

www.nacbs.org/fellowships/...

#skystorians #history #envhist #histci #envhum #humanities #environmentalhumanities
May 16, 2025 at 12:36 PM
"IMLS makes up only 0.0046% of the federal budget and efficiently provides critical resources to libraries and museums in all 50 states and territories in communities rural to urban. The museum sector, in turn, generates $50 billion in economic impact."

www.aam-us.org/2025/03/31/a...
April 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
“We are like the dreamer who dreams and then lives in the dream.”

RIP David Lynch.
January 16, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Sunrise at IU Indianapolis this morning. Happy to be at the IU Indianapolis Arts and Humanities Institute working away on our exciting plans for the semester.

#iu #indianapolis #iuindy #highered
January 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM
World premiere tonight of LEXIA:
AN AI OPERA #music #opera #arts
January 12, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Just found this bookplate in one of the books in my collection.

#books #bookhistory #oil #therewillbeblood
December 13, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Carl Baumann. Rote Kapelle Berlin [Harro Schulze-Boysen, Walter Küchenmeister, Kurt Schumacher, and Carl Baumann] (1941) Tempera on Nessel over wood. 79×99 cm._LWL-Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster.

#skystorians #history #germany
November 28, 2024 at 3:53 PM
“People who imagine that history flatters them (as it does, indeed, since they wrote it) are impaled on their history like a butterfly on a pin and become incapable of seeing or changing themselves, or the world."
--James Baldwin

#history #historians #jamesbaldwin
November 19, 2024 at 8:10 PM
You never know what you’re going to see when you get in the car and drive. Last week, I visited Eau Claire, WI and found out that they are home to the Wisconsin Logging Museum.
November 18, 2024 at 1:25 PM
I don't know why my GPS took me off the main highway last week, but I had quite the David Lynch highway experience in Wisconsin last week.
November 17, 2024 at 11:43 PM